Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
legality
@mwl For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that those new terms are illegal pretty much everywhere. You can't just claim additional license like that on existing works without a renegotiation. It would only be possible to apply this to newly-added works (and even then I expect the 'no moral rights' to be illegal in most places).
(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, even though I've dealt with various licensing topics over the years)
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Whats the author's motivation? No message to push, it cost them a few grand to publish so no immediate profit. They saw an opening created by the system that values scholarly output by the number of citations and publications you put out, rather than what you write and took it.
Why didnt the reviewer review harder? Easy, why would you waste your time working for free for a company with >1B in annual revenue where you have no connection with the journal, the people, or the work it publishes?
Why did the journal publish the paper? Super easy, money. Reputational risk doesnt seem to put a dent in the profit.
The bigger publishers entire marketing schtick of late is that they are the last bastions of Truth, and Truth aint cheap. We are only playing into that narrative by saying Frontiers is the cause of the problem. If our first reaction is to head for higher ground in the prestige landscape and reify the myth of trustworthy elite journals, we've learned nothing but the rules of the game that made this happen in the first place.
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frustration, tech industry and academia
So fucking typical. I am so sick of this happening over and over again to what could have been interesting resilient/community tech.
"Roofnet, a real mesh network deployment [...] Open participation without central planning [...] No central control over topology [...] Roofnet's technology formed the basis for Meraki, a mesh networking startup founded by members of MIT's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2012. [...] Since then, Meraki discontinued this public service, though many access points remain active, but with no connection to the Internet. [...] Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web."
@Cacotopos @aurynn Nothing fundamentally, though with most providers this would be significantly cheaper to recover from (typical industry pricing for traffic is $1-$5 per TB depending on datacenter and quality of connectivity), and you'd need unambiguously-illegal-DDoS levels of traffic wasting to reach amounts of money like this
(Most providers would also suspend your network connectivity or server above a certain threshold instead of automatically billing - that wouldn't prevent the attack, just reduce the level of surprise a bit)
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something i dont think people really get is that when development of a game is say, 80% finished you don't have 80% of a game, you have 0% of a game and 80% of the disparate parts that would make up a game if they were actually 100% done and put together
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it's not too late to start learning
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/start-learning-today/
frustration, tech industry and academia
If you've ever wondered why I do not value academia highly as an institution for technical innovation, this is a pretty good example of why.
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Emergency housing needed for tonight in Jackson Michigan
Is there literally anyone that can house my partner for one night in jackson michigan the place he has been staying cant house him after last night and the person that was going to take him and help cannout for a few days please reply to this post if you can help and i will get you in contact with him Please its going to be below 25f tonight and he has nowhere to stay and shelters are full
he is literally willing to sleep in a garage if need be
#emergencybegpost #begpost
frustration, tech industry and academia
So fucking typical. I am so sick of this happening over and over again to what could have been interesting resilient/community tech.
"Roofnet, a real mesh network deployment [...] Open participation without central planning [...] No central control over topology [...] Roofnet's technology formed the basis for Meraki, a mesh networking startup founded by members of MIT's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2012. [...] Since then, Meraki discontinued this public service, though many access points remain active, but with no connection to the Internet. [...] Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web."
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What would a computing environment look like that simply didn't support proprietary code on a technical level?
@Dee I immediately started looking on that picture for the blown capacitor, because that is usually the reason people post close-ups of PCBs and I hadn't noticed the thread context
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AGAB, subpost but this time it's on main
I'm tired of people using AMAB (assigned male at birth) and AFAB (assigned female at birth) as a glorified replacement for MTF (male to female) and FTM (female to male)
the latter terms are much more obviously bad but people still keep using the former ones like they're somehow also good
like by AGAB (assigned gender at birth) do you mean:
people perceived as "biologically X" (note: does not necessarily match assigned gender)
people raised as a certain gender
people with certain genotypes (chromosomes and genes contained within them)
people with certain phenotypes (secondary sex characteristics)
people with certain genitals or reproductive organs
I'm not listing everything
like you're oversimplifying in the same harmful ways cis people do, so, stop
a few others while we're at it: the opposite of AMAB is not AFAB, and vice/versa (not all people are forced to conform to a binary gender at birth)
if you find yourself using any term as a substitute for "biologically X", then you're doing what cis people do, and you should stop. do use these terms to point out the way that cis people oppress, but don't use them as if they're actually representing any meaningful class of people, because I promise to you that any perceived benefit is not worth it
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OH: "in nixos you write little fanfics about the computer you wish you had"
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I’m so fucking tired of “click your AI mouse on this AI button to receive an AI generated web page from our AI that does AI things to use AI on the AI Internet computer with AI”
@someonetellmetosleep @thibaultmol I don't think that would fix the startup time issue?
@someonetellmetosleep @thibaultmol It reloads the tabs on start, but only loads the page content of the currently-focused ones, the rest remain unloaded. No Auto Tab Discard though.
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de (Err, to clarify, that's a general suggestion for train tickets anywhere, I haven't used them for Poland yet but so far every single country I've tried them with has worked)
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I've found Rome2Rio to give decent estimates, though they are not always 100% accurate (and sometimes it requires clicking through to the actual ticket booking to get the exact price)
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Tussen de 73.000 en 175.000 huishoudens in Nederland lopen het risico op vervoersarmoede, becijferde onderzoeksinstituut TNO deze week. Dat betekent dat je door te hoge brandstofkosten en weinig openbaar vervoer in jouw buurt niet overal kan komen, zoals het ziekenhuis of andere voorzieningen. Ook kun je soms een baan niet aannemen die je eigenlijk wil graag zou willen. Pointer liet eerder al zien wat dit voor mensen betekent:
#pointer #TNO
https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/vervoersarmoede-minder-bussen-minder-kansen?fbclid=IwAR3IyGtgCP8djZ996MxG_LMX708dORTG_FeIrTGliKB3xXgHXYStmUKjkho
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storing the delay of db trains in minutes in an u64 just to be sure...
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
